SGA

The original article contains more than just the ones selected above. A few others –
>> Force bars to close early and violent crime goes down.
>> Alcohol increases aggression because intoxicated people are more likely to interpret things as deliberate vs accidental.
>> You can predict the level of violence in an area just by looking at alcohol sales.
>> Men get more sexually aggressive when they drink because alcohol makes it hard for them to distinguish when women are being flirty vs friendly.

Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

I’m not having a go at you Dennis, but the use of “recreational” to describe illegal drugs is straight out the drug foundation & Ross Bell’s playbook – get people to associate harmful/illegal drugs as just recreational to minimise the death, harm and danger that they cause, and its just old fuddy duddies who want to stop young hip kids having fun by banning them.

kowtow

OMBEyes

They’re doing it to tobacco also. Normalisation , denormalisation.

How often do we see and hear the sentence ” Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs” . And this denormalisation is happening while the media and other players are flat out trying to normalise drugs such as cannabis.

What the emphasis on this graph is showing is the “drug-specific harm” which is the medical harm done to users linked directly to the drug. Mind you the risk evident in the other categories doesn’t show alcohol or tobacco in a very good light there either.

Alcohol:
has an LD50 of 0.40% BAC, with approx 100,000 deaths in the US annually.

About 14 shots will kill 50% of abusers

Cannabis:
In summary, enormous doses of Delt
a 9 THC, All THC and concentrated
marihuana extract ingested by mouth were unable to produce death or organ
pathology in large mammals but did produce fatalities in smaller rodents
due to profound central nervous system depression.
The non-fatal consumption of 3000 mg/kg A THC by the dog and monkey
would be comparable to a 154-pound hu
man eating approximately 46 pounds
(21 kilograms) of 1%-marihuana or 10
pounds of 5% hashish at one time. In
addition, 92 mg/kg THC intravenously produced no fatalities in monkeys.
These doses would be comparable to a 154-pound human smoking at one time
almost three pounds (1.28 kg) of 1%-marihuana or 250,000 times the usual
smoked dose and over a million times the minimal effective dose assuming
50% destruction of the THC by smoking

Any manufactured shit has a higher potential for harm than the tried and proven. Put it in a pipe and smoke it or distill it and you’re safer than popping pills. Chardonnay girl myself. @griff. Safe rule of thumb is one shot in an evening.

Natural good chemical bad .
Not really .
This is not a loony green blog Monique.
Mummy’s Valium is used recreational as are diet pills, ketimian, barbiturates, temgesic and a range of other common everyday proscription medicines.
Meth and lsd can be sourced from plants as is heroin.

waikatosinger

The study that claims to show that drinking makes you more conservative is interesting.

What it actually shows is that when you are drunk you think a lot less about your responses to questions. In the words of the study you use less “deliberative thinking”. This is expected. “In vino veritas”. What is interesting is that answers to a politically slanted questions tended to become more conservative as a result.

The study spins this as conservatives thinking like drunk people. But a less distorted way of describing this outcome might be to say that people’s spontaneous and honest responses are more conservative that the ones they deliberate over. It looks to me like many people moderate their conservative responses and give what they see as more socially acceptable non-conservative ones. In other words this is the “shy conservative” problem we saw most recently in political polling in Britain.

So the way to fix the shy conservative problem and get more accurate political poll results in future is obviously to get people drunk before you question them. Political pollsters need to start giving away free booze! DPF are you there? Make mine a single malt whiskey or a nice cold G&T!